“They beat us with iron and wooden rods. They hit my head, back and elbow even though we were trying to have a dialogue with them,” said Savan Zalariya, a theatre artiste and professor of political theatre at Ahmedabad University, about a book-reading session disrupted on August 27.
The “silent reading session” organised by the Students and Youth Collective, Ahmedabad (SYCA), at AUDA Garden in Vastrapur had turned into a confrontation after a group of people allegedly associated with the Bajrang Dal and Vishva Hindu Parishad arrived at the venue, raised slogans, made communal remarks and assaulted participants.
